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Re: Re: RE: st: How to run 2SLS twice
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Mauro Caselli <[email protected]>
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Re: Re: RE: st: How to run 2SLS twice
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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:19:30 +1100
Thank you. This clears all my doubts.
Mauro
On 16 February 2011 12:55, Christopher Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> <>
> Thank you for your replies. I am just a bit confused and maybe it's
> because of the way I have put my equations. Equation 3) below is
> actually the first stage regression, equation 2) is a second stage or
> intermediate stage and then equation 1) is the last stage or
> structural eq.
> Now when you suggest to run equation 1) with ivreg2, do you have in
> mind to use z2, z2hat (fitted values of ivreg2 from equations 2) and
> 3)) or x3 as the instrument for the endogenous variable z1?
>
>
> There is no need--ever--to construct fitted values and plug them in. As Eric suggests, given the recursive nature of your model, it would actually be possible (and preferable, by the usual arguments of OLS vs IV) to estimate all three equations with OLS. There is no simultaneity in this system.
>
> But even if there was, you would not want to be saving predicted values from one equation and plugging them in to another. If you need to use IV (and here you don't), let the program take care of that for you.
>
> Kit
>
> Kit Baum | Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin | http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
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